""Space to Grow": Grading Contracts for Basic Writers" by Alan Blackstock

Selected Works of Alan Blackstock

Follow Contact

Article

"Space to Grow": Grading Contracts for Basic Writers

Teaching English in the Two-Year College (2014)

Alan Blackstock, Utah State University
Virginia Norris Exton, Utah State University

Find in your library

Abstract

The article provides suggestions for using a grading contract/portfolio approach to assessing writing for introductory composition classes comprised of basic writers

Keywords

writing assessment,
basic writers,
grading contracts,
portfolios

Disciplines

Rhetoric and Composition

Publication Date

Spring March, 2014

Citation Information

Alan Blackstock and Virginia Norris Exton. ""Space to Grow": Grading Contracts for Basic Writers" Teaching English in the Two-Year College (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alan_blackstock/29/